Chapter 12
Sarah was behind the cash register in the Witches Lair when Howard rushed in. He looked sidetracked, as though he had walked into the grocery store for milk and walked out fifteen minutes later with everything but milk.
“What’s wrong?” Sarah asked.
“Is Olivia here?”
“She’s in the storeroom. I can get her if you need her.”
Howard looked toward the storeroom and shook his head as though he couldn’t decide what to do.
“I’m leaving for California tonight,” he said.
“Why so suddenly?”
The more Sarah studied Howard, the more she saw the tightness behind his yellow-hazel eyes. Were his eyes always so yellow, she wondered? She glanced at the calendar at the phases of the moon and saw the full moon more than a week away.
“Everything is fine, Sarah. I just wanted to let someone k
